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![]() You have to buy a license for every potential human user in your enterprise, not the hardware capacity you own. But under this new model, they let you redeem the license 99,999 times (one redemption for each serial number in your environment) The hardware and licensing mechanics are still set up for the old system, where you license a box for some amount of concurrent users depending on box size. Re-using old hardware appeals to my sense of efficiency and value.Ģ license tiers: Plus (vanilla VPN) and Apex (client posture assessment, client-less VPN, other stuff).Įach one available as 1/3/5 year subscription, plus software update subscription which also must be purchased (I think?) In fact, I should find out how hard those are to boot another operating system. The PIXes were PC-clones, and the little ASA 5505 series were AMD Geode x86 embedded processors if I remember correctly. ![]() These are/were just x86 hardware, though. The original PIX were licensed by crypto algorithms, but that was almost entirely for export control, I believe. I used to be quite fond of the ASAs and the PIX line before it was renamed, but that was before the expanded feature licensing. I'd use VyOS, Linux, or OpenBSD/Pfsense, on some variety of hardware that they support well - x86-64 hardware in all probability, but possibly Ubiquiti MIPS64 if I had the economy of scale to make the extra R&D and reduced familiarity worth it, or it was a personal project. At one point I used a lot of Vyatta, which today is forked as VyOS.
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